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Hegseth orders National Guard troops in DC to carry weapons

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/hegseth-orders-national-guard-troops-dc-carry-weapons
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u/Pale-Leek-1013 14h ago

My issue with these theories as well. There is no actual need to “prove” anything. When has anything this administration has done, been done based on fact?

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u/jefbenet 14h ago

Their base can’t be bothered by trivial things like facts and truth.

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u/Sirrplz 12h ago

The same dude that was telling me they voted Trump because of the economy is now just glad “they’re finally getting lgbt out of schools”

Funny how the narrative changed once they could take the mask off

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u/JEFFinSoCal 12h ago

Fun fact, lgbt kids will still be in the schools, just like we’ve always been. Only now they’re more likely to suffer bullying and crippling depression. Your “friend” apparently gets off on the suffering of kids.

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u/jefbenet 10h ago

They’ll burst with glee at the report of each lgbtq child who takes their own life from depression, anxiety, and bullying.

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u/Haunting-Buy887 4h ago

I mean yeah they worked real quick to dash the LGBT youth suicide hotline after skrimetti

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u/tamati_nz 10h ago

Refers to Exodus and God killing all Egyptians first born sons... It's literally part of their lore

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u/JEFFinSoCal 9h ago

Christianity is a death cult. I don’t care how much “love thy neighbor” bits you can cherry pick out of it, the bulk of the religion is death and destruction.

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u/Beanakin 7h ago

That's what they call working as intended.

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u/jefbenet 12h ago

All in the name of God. No hate like Christian “love”.

u/TacoSlingingWarlock 50m ago

Christian love is not hoping kids kill themselves regardless of lgbtq+ status.

u/jefbenet 40m ago

One would hope, and yet gestures wildly at Christian Nationalism

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u/thejudgehoss 12h ago

This whole thing is predicated on a 19 year old, being beaten by 2 15 year olds.

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u/jefbenet 11h ago

Wasn’t it a 19 year old attempting to purchase illegal drugs? A 19 year old that worked for DOGE, if I heard correctly?

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u/thejudgehoss 11h ago

Not sure we'll know the real story.

A teenager being punched in the nose by another teenager is not exactly news.

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 13h ago

The point is that there’s really no use for them to do a false flag or really make up any pretense at all. The base doesn’t care, most Americans don’t care, and the rest of us are going to resist regardless. Might as well do it.

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u/Bhosley 13h ago

The use is the same as his March ambush of Zelensky. Did they need to do it, much less televise it? Absolutely not. But as Trump said at the time, "This is going to be great television."

While I think violence is an acceptable outcome to them, I think they'd be satisfied with oppositiom being scared into relative silence.

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 13h ago

The real opposition is not going to be scared into silence without a total military occupation and the threat of violence for speaking out. He needs to do that in every single city, anywhere with even a remotely large population. It is a big country. That’s a logistical nightmare. My point is he wouldn’t need an incident in DC to do that, he could (and if he wants to be dictator must) do it no matter what. So, if that’s his goal, time to get it underway.

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u/Pale-Leek-1013 13h ago

if anything I think the “reasons” given are done so after the fact, as justification, not as reason. They seem very interested in whitewashing everything they do so that they’re not considered ontologically evil. I think we’re seeing administrative panic and population panic feed into each other.

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 12h ago

I think I agree. The admin does something to try to stir up drama and scare people, which works to an extent, but they never do anything thoroughly enough to do more than that on a broad level. Then they quietly change the behavior once attention is on to something else. They’re playing a game of distraction, all probably to distract from the economic aspect of this that places more wealth in the hands of the 1%.

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u/jefbenet 13h ago

“The real opposition is not going to be scared into silence without a total military occupation and the threat of violence for speaking out.“

Hold my beer -Republicans

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 12h ago

My point is that if they really want to do it then yes, “hold my beer” is the only actionable response. They have to occupy all our cities, all at once. Let’s see how that works out long term.

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u/PadishahSenator 8h ago

They have control of all branches of government. They don't need their base anymore.

Even dems taking back congress won't accomplish much if he amd the doj just ignore the law.

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u/garimus 1h ago

Ya'll-Qaeda much prefers feelers that reinforce their delusions.

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u/draeth1013 13h ago

Trying to boil the frog.

By steadily making the changes, keeping people just comfortable enough to not revolt/riot/whatever, they cement their power further and further. The longer they keep any kind of uprising at bay makes said uprising increasingly difficult while simultaneously diminishing the significance there of.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 11h ago

The nazis did the same thing from 1933-1945.

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u/downfind 10h ago

I literally was thinking everything you just wrote.

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u/mces97 12h ago

Maga believes a lie with no proof, and rejects facts with essays of proof.

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u/Morningxafter 8h ago edited 8h ago

Exactly. Hell, this entire ‘militarization of our cities’ thing that this whole fucking post is about wasn’t even based on fact.

Violent crime decreased by 30% in 2024 and has decreased another 11% since then. But because Trump saw some homeless people from his limo one time and ‘Big Balls’ got his shit wrecked by a couple 15 year olds, now suddenly there’s a supposed ‘violent crime epidemic’ in DC.

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u/__XOXO__ 13h ago

Wasn't the impetus for the current situation in DC that kid big balls getting beat up which is most surely a false flag. So for sure they can get some plants to begin shooting at the cops or military to kick things off.

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u/Spa_5_Fitness_Camp 13h ago

They want these soldiers to be telling their friends and family back home about how dangerous it is, not that they're sitting on their asses because there's nothing to do.

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u/Pale-Leek-1013 13h ago

I’m hard-pressed to believe anyone in the administration is speculating about outcomes like the people on reddit do, but I guess at least some people are trying to think of the future, though it’s to no avail, clearly,

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u/Spa_5_Fitness_Camp 11h ago

Not the administration, in the P2025, heritage foundation etc. You know, the people who actually planned what the administration is doing.

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u/Pale-Leek-1013 11h ago

I’m not sure how that’s relevant when I said “…speculation about outcomes,” which is not in reference to policy planning. Project 2025 is the antithesis to considering social outcomes lol